A FANTASIST spent two years pretending to be an Arsenal football coach and a secret anti-terror cop to impress a girlfriend.
Yet, in fact, Martynas Isajevas trudged the streets as a minimum wage traffic warden.
Fantasist Martynas Isajevas spent two years pretending to be an Arsenal football coach and a secret anti-terror cop to impress a girlfriend Credit: Instagram
Isajevas had claimed to work for the Premier League champions under boss Mikel Arteta
The truth emerged as the 28-year-old Lithuanian national was given a six-month sentence for stalking the university student after she decided to dump him.
A heard he refused to accept their relationship was over and researched how to knock out the woman with chloroform.
Isajevas had claimed to work for the champions under boss .
His Instagram account, followed by 1,000 people, included dozens of snaps of him in the Gunners’ training kit, including some seemingly at their and even on a pre-season tour in Singapore.
But a Sun investigation found he had photoshopped himself into the images.
He previously claimed to have worked and played for and as a youngster had a loan spell at Irish side Derry City .
In reality, he had stuck his head on a snap of former Derry player Ally Gilchrist .
We can also reveal Isajevas worked as a parking enforcement officer at Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council in West London.
Martynas Isajevas trudged the streets as a minimum wage traffic warden Credit: Instagram
Real photo of Arsenal boss Arteta watching from the touch line Credit: Instagram
Woolwich crown court was told his victim had ditched him after five months because of his erratic behaviour.
Prosecutor Arizuna Asante said Isajevas pretended to have various jobs and was “oppressive and controlling” as to the woman’s whereabouts.
Mr Asante said: “He would go through her phone and ask where she had been, and always wanted to know where she was.
“She decided she wanted to break up and Mr Isajevas simply refused to accept the relationship was over. He continued to try to get back into the relationship with her.”
He sent hundreds of messages, and when she threatened to call cops, he told her: “I am the police.”
Isajevas tracked his ex to a bus stop near her home in Greenwich, South East London, and showed her a fake badge.
He claimed to be an undercover counter-terror cop who “could not even tell his own family” about his top secret missions.
Mr Asante said when police were alerted they found he had searched the internet for “how to break in”, “lock removal”, “how to make locks unlock”, and “making chloroform”.
He had 21 dodgy warrant cards in the name of Isajevas, a fake police uniform and cop-themed paraphernalia.
Defending, Tetevi Davi said Isajevas, of Walthamstow, East London, has lived in the UK for ten years and was “remorseful about his behaviour”.
He admitted stalking, while a charge of impersonating a police officer was dropped.
Judge Philip Shorrock said the faker had “caused a good deal of unnecessary distress and alarm”.
He gave him a six-month prison sentence, which he has already served on remand.
Isajevas wept in the dock as he learned he would walk free.
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